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Volume X X X II • Number 39
Wednesday • October 02, 2002
Drug-Free
Zones OK’d
Festival of Reuse
on Mississippi
City council gives police
powers to exclude people from
designated neighborhoods
bv L ee P erl . man /T he
P o r i land O bserver
The Portland City Council has adopted new boundaries and
regulations for Drug and Prostitution-Free Zones.
The B ack to Scrap Festival in
cluded perform ances by local
m usicians and a 20-foot scrap
m etal man. See story, page A6,
inside.
A nyone arrested for prostitution or drugs can be “excluded”
from the neighborhood zones for up to 90 days by an arresting
police officer. If they reappear within the designated period,
they can be arrested on sight for “ failure to obey a lawful order
Bus Driver Attacked;
Two Killed In Crash
o fa police officer.”
FRESNO, C alif.— A passenger
slashed the throat o f a Greyhound
driver as he traveled down a Cal i-
fom ia freeway, causing his bus
to careen out o f control, authori
ties said. At least two people died
and dozens were injured.
M ultnomah County Public D efenders, Better People, the
R epresentatives o f the A m erican Civil Liberties Union, the
NAACP and the Sabin C om m unity A ssociation opposed the
zones, or called for m odifications.
Some o f the critics charged that indiscrim inate use o f police
powers under the local law, com bined with racial profiling, were
leading to gentrification in som e areas.
Congress: War Could
Cost $9 Billion a Month
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On the west side, the drug free zones have been expanded
as far west as Northwest 23rd A venue, and as farnorth as Irving
W A SH IN G T O N — Fighting a
full-scale w ar w ith Iraq w ould
cost up to $9 billion a month,
congressional budget experts
said as the Senate prepared to
opened debate on a resolution
authorizing President Bush to
w age that war.
Street. On the east side, the zones now include part o f the Eliot
neighborhood and m ost o f the Lloyd District, including Dawson
and Holladay parks.
Some o f the old Beech, Alberta and W oodlaw n zones have
been elim inated, including W oodlaw n Park.
N ortheast M artin Luther King Jr. Boulevard w as elim inated
as a Prostitution-Free Zone. The designation w asco n tin u ed fo r
Sharon Met by Wall-
to-Wall Criticism
4
JERU SALEM — Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon cam e under wall-
to-w all criticism at hom e for the
bungled 10-day siege o f Y asser
A rafat’s com pound, w hich w as
aborted under intense U.S. pres
sure.
Second Trial for
Einhorn Set to Begin
PHILADELPHIA— Formerhip-
pie guru Ira Einhom will be the
centerofattention in a Philadel
phia courtroom this w eek as he
faces trial for allegedly blud
geoning his girlfriend to death
m ore than 20 years ago. O pen
ing statem ents have been given.
AIDS Cases Could Swell by
100 Million by 2010
L A N G LEY , Va. — A w ave o f
H IV /A 1D S c a se s sw e e p in g
through five o f the w orld’s most
populated countries could, by
2010, sw ell the global case toll
by 100 m illion new cases, says a
report released by the CIA.
CEOs May Be Liable for
Losses In 401(k)s
In an action that could prompt
com panies to b eef up oversight
o f 401 (k) plans, the federal gov
ernm ent issued a court b rief this
month that said former Enron chief
executive officer Ken Lay and
other top executives could be
personally liable for millions o f
dollars in retirement plan losses.
N ortheast Sandy Boulevard and 82nd A venue.
People w ho live, work, receive m edical attention, schooling
Gospel Singer Debuts ‘Passion’
Local gospel singer and writer Renee Ross fills the Augustana Lutheran Church at 2710 N.E. 14th Ave.
with uplifting music Saturday. The free concert featured a handful o f songs from Ross' new CD “Pas
sion " and performances by the gospel troupe “The Disciples In Song." A native of Pine Bluff, Ark., Ross
has made Portland her home since 1966.
photo bv D avid P i . ectii TT he P ortland O bserver
or training w ithin the zones can get “v ariances” to travel to or
from these destinations.
In a change from past procedure, the exceptions will be given
on request by the arresting officer at the tim e o f the exclusion,
rather than obtained later from a local police precinct.
continued
on page AS
Shoppers
Twist Through
Construction
/f's business as usual for the Safeway
store at Martin Luther King Jr. Boule
vard and Ainsworth Street. A new
"during construction entrance" on the
southwest side o f the building makes
for easy customer access during the
nearly $5 million renovation. Safeway
decided to keep the store open during
the remodel because o f the wishes of
loyal customers.
photo bv M ark W ashincton /T he
P ortland
O bserver
Census: Number of
Uninsured Increases
A stru g g lin g e c o n o m y and
higher health insurance costs
caused 1.4 m illion m ore people
to go w ithout m edical coverage
last year, bringing the total u n
insured to 41.2 m illion, figures
to be released today by the C en
sus Bureau show.
Yes Vote Urged on Children’s Initiative
The Portland C hildren’s Initiative, which
will provide m uch needed additional sup-
•*'” * for P ortland’s kids, will appear on the
5 ballot.
>assed, M easure 26-33 will raise ap-
nately S10 m illion annually through a
ear property tax levy. The money would
;d to create a C h ild ren ’s Investm ent
to target investm ent o f early child-
d e v e lo p m e n t, a fte r sc h o o l an d
iring program s and prevention o f ch i Id
t and neglect.
ty C om m issioner Dan Saltzm an, who
d get the m easure referred to the ballot
ity C ouncil, said, “sim ply put, the
t
C hildren’s Initiative is a smart, cost-effec
tive idea that solves an im portant problem .”
He said the investm ent in proven pro
gram s for kids will m ake children a higher
priority, help ease the burden on schools,
m ake our com m unity a stronger, healthier
and better place to live, and create trem en
dous long-term savings to taxpayers.”
The C hildren’s Investm ent Fund is m od
eled after successful program s in San Fran
cisco and Seattle that took the local invest
ment from their levies and leveraged signifi
cant additional federal and private dollars.
In San Francisco, w here the first levy
passed in 1991 and w here the city w as able
1
to m atch local taxpayer m onies with federal
and private dollars by alm ost a 7 to 1 ratio,
the successes have been staggering.
Saltzm an said the city w as able to reduce
juvenile felony arrests by 24 percent, d e
crease reports o f child abuse and neglect by
25 percent, decrease the foster care popula
tion by 19 percent, increase the high school
com pletion rate by 11 percent and decrease
em ergency m ental health hospitalizations
by 32 percent.
Portland m easure has won key endorse
m ents from the Portland Business A lliance,
theC itizens’ C rim eCom m ission, The Urban
League o f Portland, the Portland A ssocia-
Simplv put, the
Children s Initiative is a
smart, cost-effective
idea that solves an
important problem.
-C ity Commissioner Dan Saltzman.
tion o f Teachers. The Schools A lliance, The
M orrison Center, The N orthw est O regon
Labor C ouncil, S elf E nhancem ent, Inc.,
Friends o f the C hildren, Stand for C hildren,
Children First For O regon, and hundreds o f
other organizations and individuals.